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and enhance public safety. The Visiting

Fellowship Program, which

complements the COPS Office’s efforts

to add 100,000 officers to our nation’s

streets and support the development of

innovative community policing

strategies, is one of a wide variety of

policing programs supported under this

law.

The Visiting Fellowship Program is

intended to offer researchers, law

enforcement professionals, community

leaders, and legal experts an

opportunity to undertake independent

research, problem development

activities, and policy analysis designed

to accomplish one or more of the

following: improve police-citizen

cooperation and communication;

enhance police relationships with other

components of the criminal justice

system, as well as at all levels of local

government; increase police and

citizens’ ability to solve community

problems innovatively; facilitate the

restructuring of agencies to allow the

fullest use of departmental and

community resources; promote the

effective flow and use of information

both within and outside an agency; and

improve law enforcement

responsiveness to members of the

community.

Visiting Fellows will study a topic of

mutual interest to the Fellows and the

COPS Office for up to 12 months. While

in residence, Fellows will contribute to

the development of community policing

programs that are national in scope.

Two types of fellowships are

available: (1) Community Policing

Training and Technical Assistance

Fellowships and (2) Program/Policy

Support and Evaluation Fellowships.

Community Policing Training and

Technical Assistance Fellowships will

offer police practitioners and

community leaders the opportunity to

participate in a community policing

training program that is national in

scope. Fellows will work to broaden

their knowledge of a training area that

is directly related to community

policing. The experience is intended to

encourage the further development,

enhancement, or renewed exploration of

a particular training expertise that

supports community policing. Fellows

will deliver this expertise innovatively

as well as provide technical assistance

to others.

Program/Policy Support and

Evaluation Fellowships will offer police

practitioners, researchers, and policy

analysts the opportunity to support

innovative community policing

programs, to engage in scholarly

research activities to assess the

effectiveness of community policing

approaches and to apply policy analysis

skills to support the advancement of

community policing nationwide. The

experience is intended to encourage the

further development, enhancement, or

renewed exploration of program, policy

and evaluation issues that support

community policing. This work will be

shared with policy makers and

practitioners through a variety of

forums.

Grants or cooperative agreements

under the Visiting Fellowship Program

may support salary, fringe benefits,

travel essential to the project, and

miscellaneous supplies or equipment in

support of the project. Reasonable

relocation expenses and the cost of

temporary housing also may be

permitted in cases of relocation from a

Fellow’s permanent address.

Under the Visiting Fellowship

Program, the COPS Office may award

grants or enter into cooperative

agreements with individuals, public

agencies, colleges or universities,

nonprofit organizations, and profitmaking organizations willing to waive

their fees.

Receiving a grant or cooperative

agreement under the Visiting

Fellowship Program will not affect the

eligibility of an agency to receive

awards under other COPS programs.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) reference for this

program is 16.710.

Dated: June 25, 1998.

Joseph E. Brann,

Director.

[FR Doc. 98–18252 Filed 7–8–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–AT–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree

Under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response

Compensation and Liability Act

Notice is hereby given that on June

16, 1998, a proposed Consent Decree

(‘‘decree’’) in United States of America

v. Bell Atlantic—Virginia, Inc., et al.,

Civil Action No. 3:98 CV 372 was

lodged with the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

In this action, the United States

sought recovery of costs incurred by the

United States Environmental Protection

Agency in response to the release and

threat of release of hazardous substances

at the C&R Battery site in Chesterfield

County, Virginia. The decree requires

seventeen parties who arranged for the

disposal of hazardous substances at the

C&R Battery site to reimburse the United

States a total of $591,285.82.

The Department of Justice will receive

for a period of thirty (30) days from the

date of this publication comments

relating to the decree. Comments should

be addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General of the Environment and Natural

Resources Division, Department of

Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and

should refer to United States v. Bell

Atlantic—Virginia, Inc., et al., D.J. Ref.

#90–11–2–692/1.

The decree may be examined at the

Offices of the United States Attorney for

the Eastern District of Virginia, 600 East

Main Street, Suite 600, Richmond,

Virginia 23219, at U.S. EPA Region 3,

841 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

19107 and the Consent Decree Library,

1120 G Street, NW., 4th Floor,

Washington, DC 20005, (202) 624–0892.

A copy of the decree may be obtained

in person or by mail from the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th

Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In

requesting a copy, please enclose a

check in the amount of $28.25 (25 cents

per page reproduction cost) payable to

the Consent Decree Library. In

requesting a copy exclusive of exhibits

and defendants’ signatures, please

enclose a check in the amount of $4.50

(25 cents per page reproduction cost)

payable to the Consent Decree Library.

Joel M. Gross,

Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section,

Environment and Natural Resources Division.

[FR Doc. 98–18254 Filed 7–8–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–15–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree

Pursuant to the Clean Water Act

In accordance with Departmental

Policy, 28 CFR § 50.7, notice is hereby

given that a Partial Consent Decree in

United States of America v. Calderon, et

al., No. 96–2451 RLA (D. Puerto Rico),

was lodged with the United States

District Court for the District of Puerto

Rico on June 10, 1998.

The proposed Partial Consent Decree

would resolve the United States’

allegations in this enforcement action

against Defendant Construcciones Carro,

the contractor who filled approximately

.5 acres of herbaceous wetlands in

Mayaguez Puerto Rico, without a permit

under Section 404 of the Clean Water

Act (‘‘CWA’’), 33 U.S.C. 1344.

The proposed Partial Consent Decree

would require Defendant Carro to: (1)

restore wetlands for the wetland areas

impacted by the illegal discharges; and

(2) pay a $10,000 civil penalty.

The Department of Justice will accept

written comments relating to the